Advent of bugfixes

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Wed Dec 4 10:33:27 UTC 2019


On Wednesday, 4 December 2019 at 08:56:47 UTC, FeepingCreature 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 4 December 2019 at 05:53:07 UTC, berni44 wrote:
>> 3. advent
>
> Very minor nitpick, but just for information's sake: the days 
> of advent are the sundays before Christmas. Ie. third of advent 
> is the 15th. I initally thought you were doing 'days of 
> Christmas', but that's the days *after* Christmas, ie. until 
> New Year. I think there's no better word for your numbering 
> than days of December, which sadly doesn't sound very 
> seasonal... ;)

I wouldn't like to start a religion debate but Advent is the whole
season beginning with the fourth Sunday before Christmas (or with
the sixth in some rites) [1] and the Advent calendar itself isn't
a newfangled thing either [2].

So Advent of bugfixes seems to be theologically correct. :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent_calendar


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